*Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, September 7, 2008
*Rushville (IN) Republican, September 11, 2008
as "9/11: A tragedy but also a lesson"
*Pella, IA Chronicle
September 12, 2008
as "9/11: A tragedy but also a lesson"
*Rushville (IN) Republican, September 11, 2008
as "9/11: A tragedy but also a lesson"
*Pella, IA Chronicle
September 12, 2008
as "9/11: A tragedy but also a lesson"
Copyright © 2008 by Ralph Couey
Seven years ago this week, in the space of two hours, the world was changed. Our nation was changed. We were changed.
We were suddenly and brutally taken from a world of the familiar and plunged into another world. A world of dark uncertainty. A world dominated by shock, pain and horror.
At first, our senses refused to accept the reality of the images transmitted to us. Desperately, we were hoping that the disaster unfolding before our eyes was some Hollywood concoction, or perhaps just a bad dream.
But as time passed, we had to accept the fact that our worst nightmare had become reality.
This week, we remember.
We remember the shock, the sorrow and, yes, the anger we felt that morning.
We remember the horror we felt as we watched the deaths of innocent people.
But we also remember those moments on that terrible day when we reached out to each other and found comfort, discovering that for those linked by the common experience of a terrible tragedy, there is no such word as “stranger.”
